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Yes I know I’ve posted this song. I was to post a song on September 1st of what I’ve been listening to the most or what song best represents the quarter and it’s this song. I’ve been listening to Ry X’s performance from France that is about a hour long on my rides to and from work. This song always makes my mind smile. Many wonderful memories to this song.

I’m glad I moved to quarterly songs from yearly songs at the start of 2015.

This song has been on repeat and it’s taken me 20 days to finalized this selection. It’s a song for the quiet morning and it’s a song for the still in the night. It’s a song to lie with someone and it’s a song to kiss them all over to.

I find it completely sexy in so many ways. I’m not going to post the lyrics below since I don’t want to wreck what is inside my head. Ry X is coming to Toronto 😉

Below is the video and at a certain point the video changes the mood of the song.

I don’t want much
I just wanna be a better man
To my baby
Meet me off good luck
I was singing with them Jezebels
Under perfume sheets
Got a golden smile, heart overflow
But got us in love, but it wasn’t enough

What can I do? What can I do?
To get back to your heart
I’d swim the Mississippi river
If you would give me another start, girl

All night long I was out
Out till the morning
But baby you’re tender
Love’s what I’m longing
Baby please, I’m down on my knees begging
I thirst for you girl
Baby I’m running to your well

What can I do? What can I do?
To get back to your heart
I’d swim the Mississippi river
If you would give me another start, girl

September 11th, 2012 I downloaded this song from iTunes from the Japandroids. It made me smile and excited. Two guys from British Columbia. One going nuts on the drums and one on the guitar. It screamed of the summer that just passed. I almost made it the song of the year for 2012 that Ben’s “The Fear” was picked.

This one is in my gym mix now. It’s the kind of song that the music video wins you over.

Mike is a sweet voice in my earbuds and after discovering him in the beginning of 2012 after splitting up with my high school sweetheart after 23 years… I fell in love with his soothing voice and words that grabbed you by the throat and made you stop and listen and reflect.

Life is never easy. This song hits home and it’s the song of the quarter for 2016. The video below is captured when he was busking in Vancouver by the water by CBC Music. Can’t wait to see Mike again hopefully soon.

“Rolling Stone”

Sometimes I feel I’m going nowhere
Sometimes I’m sure I never will
She said it’s ‘cos I’m always moving
I never notice ‘cos I never stand stillSometimes I feel like I’m falling
Falling fast and falling free
She said my darling you’re not falling
Always looked like you were flying to me

But I fear I’ve grown a rolling stone inside of me
She said oh don’t you know
The rolling stones stop at the sea
And that’s where I’ll be

Sometimes I’m sure I know no one
A thousand faces but no names
She said my love you do know someone
Oh and i know you back just the same

But I’m scared I said, what if this stone don’t slow down
Oh just be aware she said
What goes up will come down
And when you do I’ll be around

Oh when I’ve dragged this rolling stone across this land
I’ll make sure I leave this stone in her hand
For we both know too well the rolling stones turn in to sand
If they don’t find a place to stand

Kris Orlowski is a Seattle based indie song writer who I had the chance to catch at the Silver Dollar in Toronto. He opened up for Ivan + Alyosha and I loved and downloaded some songs from his albums. Two songs stuck out for me and I felt that I liked both of these songs equally and I picked up both of them for my Song Of The Quarter that is part of the songs that I pick for my Song Of The Year.

Since starting this blog I picked a song that would represent my song of the calendar year. In 2015, I started to pick songs each quarter.

The first song below is Carolina which was my first download from Kris. Two versions of the song below since the first one is a stripped down version.

Believer is the second song and I find it ringing positive in my ears. I really like this singer songwriter. I hope he returns to Toronto one day and I can catch him again.

Novo Amor is such a sweet group and this song is so relaxing. Goes sweet with RyX and Bon Iver. Make a playlist like I did. This song puts me in my happy place and also lets me be reminded of many great memories.

Calming in a crazy world. Dare you to download him from iTunes and anything from Novo Amor is highly recommend. You will find his tracks on the latest copies of the Sunday Morning Playlist in the pull-down menu on the blog.

The official video is below that gives you a better idea of the track you can purchase on iTunes.